Healing the gut after cancer therapy: Immune cells turn damage into repair

Regulatory T cells (Treg cells), a specialized type of immune cell, are usually seen as "peacekeepers" that prevent excessive ...
eLife

A general mechanism for initiating the bacterial general stress response

This important study combines genetic analysis, biochemistry, and structural modeling to reveal new insights into how changes in protein-protein structure activate signal transduction as part of the ...
Carnegie Institution for Science

Light matters: phototaxis and signal transduction in unicellular cyanobacteria

10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04160.x Many photosynthetic microorganisms have evolved the ability to sense light quality and/or quantity and can steer themselves into optimal conditions within the ...
GEN

Increasing Transduction Efficiency by Enhancing Co-Localization of Viruses and Cells

That’s gene editing. On paper, it is merely the rearrangement of letters. However, the road to editing genes in hopes of a therapeutic benefit is difficult to travel. Additionally, researchers want ...
News Medical

New RNA barcoding method tracks gene transfer in microbial communities

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...
IEEE

A Multiphysics Framework for Bacterial Cellulose Sensor Modeling

Abstract: Bacterial Cellulose (BC) is a promising biodegradable biopolymer synthesized by bacteria in a low energy consumption process based solely on renewable materials (a sucrose-based culture is ...
The EMBO Journal

Flagellar rotation facilitates the transfer of a bacterial conjugative plasmid

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Conjugation-mediated DNA delivery is the ...